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Monday, 30 December 2013

Well, another day, another card!!! I am certainly putting my time off to good use! (Probably should do some housework too hee hee!)

But for now, I have used this cute Little Moscow "Ribbon Dance" Tilda, for my card.

I inked her with Sepia archival ink, as I am not too keen on stamping in black, I prefer to used this one or my Tuxedo mocha ink, as they are closer to actual skin colours and just look that little bit better.

I have coloured her with prisma pencils, using my favourite LOS Method and I have used promarkers for her skin and hair.

I decided to go with lots of larger roses this time, instead of using Kort & Godt rolled Roses, as I used them alot over Christmas, the roses are from the Ribbon Girl, I had a bit of a splurge and bought lots of roses in different colours, I used Lilac and White on my last girlie card.

The beautiful deep lace is from Live and Love Crafts as are the cream sprigs, shabby seam binding and clay heart. I've also used a cherry blossom from the Hobby House and a large daisy from my own goodies.

Again, I am using my Tim Holtz Ideology wording, I love the selection and they are small enough to use on just about anything!!!

Sunday, 29 December 2013

I hope that you are all enjoying the festive period with your families.

Yesterday we had a family party for my pops, there were 28 people gathered for his 64th birthday, but he swears he is 63 hee hee!!!

I made this little soldier based card for him and as we are English I added lots of English embellishments to the card too! He loves hand made cards and keeps each one that he receives from his family. Two of my little nieces make card too, ages 5 & 11 and he keeps every single one!!!

So here is my card...

I also used the Castle background from the Tilda prince and Princesses Range.

I didn't have any suitable backing papers for the base layer, so I printed a union jack onto decoupage paper and then sanded it and run my gold paint pen around the edge. The top layer is nautical magnolia paper, I liked it as it sort of suited the design, if not the theme hee hee!

The red taffeta ribbon is from the ribbon girl and I managed to find the beefeater guards ribbon on ebay. All the other little embellies are from my own stash off goodies and I made a removable tag, from poppy type paper ...

I made a little lilac pearl pin and added a few other embellishments from both of the above on line stores.For a change I coloured her with copics, as I prefer to use prisma pencils, but I thought I would have a little change!

My new favourite thing, has to be the Tim Holtz, Ideology words, you will probably see them alot on my cards now hee hee!

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The theme this time around is simple.... Winter With Snowflakes, we are looking foward to seeing your beautiful interpretations for this theme.

We have three wonderful sponosors this week, Live & Love Craft, The Ribbon Girl and Crimson Cloud!

So there you have it, you have three chances to win a prize from three wonderful craft stores!!!

Here is my card

I haven't had chance to use The Day Before Christmas "Noel Tilda" this season, but I just couldn't resist using her in our last Christmas Challenge for the year!

I just love easel and half easel cards, I think that they have so much scope for design. I found theses little letter Charms in my goodies and strung them together and spelled out NOEL, to match the image! I also used Unique's Wooden "Let it Snow" wording too!

Both papers are Magnolia in pink and grey tones an I have glittered a large snowflake for the edge of the design.

All flowers are the Ribbon Girl and the little fir cone is from Live and Love Crafts!!!!

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I had a thought about the blue one after I had made it, I should have tied the silver dummy charm through the blue baby pin, not stuck it behind, but hey ho never mind!

Anyway the sweet charms are from ebay and the gingham ribbons are from the Ribbon Girl, as are the sweeetheart blossoms!

The cute little Tim Holtz card board words are from Live and love crafts!I bought these beautiful swirley frames on ebay ages ago, atleast a year or so ago, but I do think that they are very pretty when distressed. The images are fab for 1st birthday, new baby cards, they are so adorable!

I hope that you like my cards for today.

Dont forget that Fashionista Magnolia and More Challenge Goes Live tomorrow Monday 9th December, we would love you to pop over and join in the fun & maybe win a prize, I will be back in the morning with more information! (link at the top of my sidebar).

The ribbon girl

See below for a selection of my first cards, that I posted on my blog

Valentines Topper

I Used Tim Holtz Distress Inks As The Medium For This Topper and The Stunning Roses, Poppies and Tulips are From WOC and Papers Are From My Personal Stash Of Mixerd Designer Papers.

Step Cards

I have been making these step cards since around 2009/10 and find them to be very eye catching and unusual in design. My family were all thrilled with their Christmas step cards, so I thought I would share the two that I have made recently. One is a male theme Edwin Card and the Other is from the Magnolia 2013 Summer Memories Range! Thanks For droping Bye. Cuddles Jay x